grows in Pine barrens. It is also said to be native of the 

 mountains of Carolina. 



Introduced by Mr. Peter CoUinson in 1736. Flowers 

 with us in April and May. Drawn at the nursery of 

 Messrs. Colvill in the King's Road, Chelsea, where it is 

 cultivated in peat-mould; and usually kept in pots, and 

 sheltered under the lights of a garden-pit in the winter. 



A small upright bush, seldom exceeding a foot in 

 height; branches round leafy subdivided. Leaves, com- 

 pared by some with those of the Box-tree, by others with 

 those of Tbyme, scattered, closish, shortly petioled, oval, 

 obtuse, 2-3 lines long, shining on both sides, paler under- 

 neath, reflexed at the edge. Corymbs terminal, subcapi- 

 tate, simple; pedicles one-flowered, minutely pubescent, 

 placed on a short peduncle beset by smooth green oblong 

 obtuse subimbricate spreading scalelike bractes placed se- 

 parately at the foot of each pedicle. Calyx green, some- 

 times tinged vnth red, five-parted, smooth, dinted under- 

 neath, segments upright, lanceolate. Corolla white, some- 

 times slightly tinged with red on the outside ; petals ovate, 

 obtuse, longer than the calyx, sessile (that is, without un- 

 guis or petal-foot) y spreading. JFllaments subulate, longer 

 than the corolla, white, uprightly spreading : anthers purple, 

 ovate, small, incumbently upright, twin. Style cylindri- 

 cal, the length of the stamens ; stigma a simple depressedly 

 blunted point. Capsule ovate pointed, somewhat wrinkled; 

 the valves opening longitudinally on the inner-side. Seeds 

 many, bmall, ovate. 



We have borrowed the description from the excellent 

 ones respectively given by Messrs. Bergius and De La- 

 marck. 



